Fire-annihilator



, (No'ModeL) I. KITSEE.

n FIRE ANNIHILATOR.

No. 257,592. Patented May 9,1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TSIDOR KITSEE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FIRE-ANNIHILATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,592, dated May 9,1882.

Application filed January 17, 1882. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, IsIDoR Krrsnn, a citizenof the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamiltonand State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement inFire-Anuihilators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of fire-.

annihilators in which chemicals are held in separation, and areintermingled in a common vessel when brought into action by rupturcoffusible connections; and my present invention is an. improvement onthe devices described in an application filed on or about the 7th day ofNovember, 1881, and for which Letters Patent have been granted to me.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is ai'ront view of myinvention, partially in section. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the sameon the line y y of Fig. 1, showing in dotted-lines the vessel inverted.Fig. Sis a vertical section through the vessel, showing the manner-ofstoring chemicals in separation. Fig. 4 is a detailed perspective viewof one of the spring-pressed trunnions in place in the standard. Fig. 5is a top view of the under post and its attached spring.

Similar letters of reference indicatelike parts in each figure.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A is an inclosed vessel,provided with internal chambers or shelves, at a a, on which are storedrequired quantities of chemicals in separation. This vessel hastrunnions B located below the center of the vessel A, leaving the upperlonger and heavier than the lower part. The trunnions B rest withinspring-pressed bearings b upon standards 0 O. Under the vessel A is ashort post, 1), provided with spring d, against which the upper part ofthe vessel A will strike and rebound when it swings, the springs d and bcounteracting against each other, causing the vessel A to oscillate toand fro, and thus thoroughly intermingle the chemicals within thevessel.

Eis a flexible pipe which leads from the vessel A into adistributing-pipe, F, which is led through the rooms of a building. Thispipe F has openings f for the escape of the fire-extinguishing gasgenerated by the admixture of the chemicals when the vessel A is set inmotion.

G is a. wire or cord which is fastened in any suitable manner to thevessel A and keeps it in a vertical position, as shown in the drawings.This cord or wire G has fusible connections g. It is led from itsconnections to the vessel A through the various parts of a building.When, by the rise of temperature, one of the fusible connections becomesmelted, the vessel A is at once released and swings from its verticalposition, strikes against the spring d, and swings backward and forwardby the action of the springsb and d. The chemicals that have been heldin separation within the vessel A thus become commin'gled and form afire-annihilating gas, which passes through the flexible pipe E, andfrom thence into the distributing-pipe F, when it eventually escapesthrough the openings f. These openings may be closed with fusible caps,or finished in any practicable manner; but it is not necessary herein todescribe the construction of the distributing-pipe F and its openings,as it forms the subject of other applications which I have made forLetters Patent.

What I claim is-- 1. A fire-annihilating device havinga swinging vesselhung on trunnions below its center, supplied with chemicals inseparation,and having a flexible eduction-pipc, substantially asdescribed.

2. In a fire-annihilating device operated by' melting of fusibleconnections, a swinging generator, A, having flexible eductionpipe E,said generator being provided below its 'center with trunnions BB,mounted on standards G (J, and adapted to automatically invert and.swing to and fro by action of springs b 1), surrounding said trunnions,in combination with the spring (I, substantially as described.

3. In afire-amiihilating device, the combination of a-swiuginggenerator, hung below its center, supplied with chemiealsin separation,and having aflexible eduction-pipe, with adistributing-pipe providedwith eduction-openings, substantially as described.

4. The combination, inafire-annihilating device, of the swinginggenerating-vesselA, with fusible .connections G, eduction-pipe E,distributing-pipe F, and post D, having spring 0?, substantially asdescribed.

ISIDOR KITSEE. Witnesses:

GEORGE SIEFKE, W. O. FIEDELDEY.

